Cyrus the Great (590-529 BCE) was known as an innovative warrior and a benevolent king. He expanded the Achaemenid Dynasty to ...

Centuries after Haman’s genocidal antisemitism, the ruler of Iran (the modern name of ancient Persia), Ali Hosseini Khamenei, ...

In Book I of his Histories, Herodotus depicted the early life of the Persian king, recounting in mythological terms how a series of dreams led Astyages, the king of the Medes, to attempt to kill ...

He refers to Trump in sermons and at rallies as a modern version of the 6th Century BCE Persian king Cyrus. "Thus says the Lord to Cyrus, whom I've anointed," says Wallnau in a video posted online.

The 2nd-century CE Roman historian Justin relates how, during a round of negotiations after Alexander captured Darius’ family at the Battle of Issus, the Persian king exclaimed his gratitude for ...

Under Cyrus, the Persian Empire became the hegemonic power in the East. Despite beginning his reign as a vassal king subject to the Median Empire, which he would later conquer, Cyrus was fierce ...

Over a 10-year period, fighting across modern-day Turkey, the Middle East, and as far away as Afghanistan and Pakistan, Alexander routed Persian king Darius III, taking the empire for his own.

On the right stood high Persian dignitaries—most of them Moslems ... Shahinsha Reza Shah Pahlavi: “The King of Kings, Reza, King Pahlavi.” * So called from the figures of two peacocks ...

An inscription bearing the name of Persian King Darius the Great was discovered in Tel Lachish National Park, the first discovery of an inscription bearing the king’s name anywhere in Israel.

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